Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham have proposed a new
national identity card. The Senators would require that “all U.S.
citizens and legal immigrants who want jobs” obtain a “high-tech,
fraud-proof Social Security card” with a unique biometric identifier.
The card, they say, would not contain private information, medical
information, or tracking techniques, and the biometric identifiers
would not be stored in a government database. EPIC has testified in
Congress and commented to federal agencies on the privacy and security
risks associated with national identification systems and biometric
identifiers.

India will likely be the example followed by many other nations in creating biometric identities for citizens. There are some important questions about who should control this data about individuals, what rights should people have in regards to unique identifiers? for instance, should people be excluded from earning wages, communicating, and generally operating in society if they lack these government-issued identities? Prior to the deployment and instituting of these systems, we need to see vigorous debate and discussion about how these systems will affect the basic rights of people. Now is the time in the US and India, Â to begin speaking out in public forums and channels about where you stand on your rights and your privacy.

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